OBJECTIVE To compare psychological stress, quality of marital life, and disruptive homelife due to work among rural women of central Wisconsin who take vacations frequently and those who do not. METHODS Women were recruited from 1996 to 2001 for a prospective cohort study from the Marshfield Epidemiologic Study area, a geographic area in central Wisconsin. Stratified sampling was used to sele...

There are many practical situations that have both features of customer retrials and server vacations. The vacation policy is characterized by the vacation startup rules and vacation termination rules. The queueing system with retrials and vacations has been described in variety of ways according to the vacation rules and retrial policies such as constant retrial policy and linear retrial polic...

In this paper, we consider a GI/Geo/1 queue with working vacations and vacation interruption. The server takes the original work at the lower rate rather than completely stopping during the vacation period. Meanwhile, we introduce vacation interruption policy: the server can come back to the normal working level once there are customers after a service completion during the vacation period, thu...

This paper presents a finite buffer renewal input single working vacation and vacation interruption queue with state dependent services and state dependent vacations, which has a wide range of applications in several areas including manufacturing, wireless communication systems. Service times during busy period, vacation period and vacation times are exponentially distributed and are state depe...

We consider the discrete-time gated multiple-vacation queue. Vacations are modeled as independent random variables with distributions depending on the number of the immediately preceding vacations. Using a probability generating function approach, we focus on various performance measures such as moments of queue contents and customer delay in equilibrium. These measures are functions of a const...

vi Preface A variety of queueing models have been proposed and analyzed to evaluate the pelformance of systems such as computer, communication and manufacturing systems. Among them, queueing systems with vacations have been extensively studied in the last two decades since those have a lot of applications in those real systems. For example, in most computer systems, a processor is shared among ...

Shanthikumar [10] studied the priority M/G/1 queue with server vacations and found that the difference between the waiting time distribution under the non-preemptive priority and that under the preemptive-resume priority is independent of the vacation policy. We extend this interesting property i) to the generalized vacations which includes the two vacation policies considered by Shanthikumar, ...

Abstract—This study considers the M/M/1/N queue with working breakdowns and server vacations. We assume that the arrivals occur according to a Poisson process. The server is subject to breakdowns and repairs while in operation. At failure times, the server still works at a lower service rate rather than completely stopping service. When there are no customers in the system, the server takes mul...